Creative E-MU 1820 Digital Audio System

The E-MU 1820 features:

• Pristine 24-bit, 192kHz converters and flexible connectivity with 18 audio inputs, 20 outputs, 32 channels of MIDI I/O, plus a FireWire® port for seamless integration with your entire studio
• Two premium TFPro™ mic preamps with Mic/Line/Hi-Z inputs with 40db of gain/attenuation and 48V phantom power - plug guitars, keyboards
• E-DSP 32-bit Multi-effects Processor offers you over 16 simultaneous hardware-accelerated studio-grade effects with no CPU overhead - plug-in architecture allows you to add new effects as needed
• 32 Channels of zero latency Hardware Mixing/ Monitoring with super-flexible virtual patchbay - no external mixer needed
• Full compatibility with most popular audio/sequencer applications with ultra-low latency WDM, DirectSound® and ASIO 2.0 Drivers
• Powerful software studio package

I/O Configuration:

• Two TFPro Mic/Line/Hi-Z preamps (w/48V phantom power)
• Six 1/4" Balanced Inputs
• Eight 1/4" Balanced Outputs
• Turntable input (w/ground lug and hardware RIAA preamp)
• 24-bit/192kHz ADAT In/Out (switchable to S/PDIF)
• 24-bit/96kHz coaxial S/PDIF In/Out (switchable to AES/EBU)
• 24-bit/96kHz optical S/PDIF Out (switchable to AES/EBU)
• Two sets of MIDI In/Out
• Four stereo 1/8" Speaker Outputs (configurable from stereo to 7.1)
• Stereo Headphone Output
• Firewire® Interface

E-DSP Hardware-accelerated Effects, Mixing and Monitoring:
E-MU's Digital Audio Systems feature the powerful E-DSP chipset, which features a hardware-accelerated effects processor with over 20 effects plug-ins (over 500 presets). This effects architecture is fully expandable, allowing you to add more effect plug-ins to your system as needed. E-DSP also provides zero-latency, hardware-based mixing and monitoring via the included PatchMix DSP mixer, delivering unmatched flexibility in routing audio between all of your physical and virtual (ASIO/WDM) inputs and outputs- no external mixer needed.

All Digital Audio Systems ship with the following Effects Plug-ins:

1-Band Para EQ	1-Band Shelf EQ	3-Band EQ
4-Band EQ	Auto-Wah	Chorus
Compressor	Distortion	Distortion
Freq Shifter	Leveling Amp	Mono Delay 100
Mono Delay 3000	Stereo Delay 100	Stereo Delay 1500
Phase Shifter	Rotary	Speaker Simulator
Stereo Reverb	Vocal Morpher

Click on the MP3 samples below to hear some of these Plug-ins in action. Each MP3 sample starts with an uneffected instrument/vocal recorded clean using the Digital Audio System, followed by the same instrument/vocal with effects. (these MP3's are between 300K and 900K each).

Acoustic Guitar (Chorus/Reverb) Acoustic Guitar.mp3
Bass Guitar (Compression/EQ) Bass Guitar.mp3
Drum Kit (Compression/EQ) Drum Kit.mp3
Electric Guitar (Distortion/EQ/Speaker Simulator/Delay/Reverb) Electric Guitar.mp3
Electric Piano (Phase Shifter/Reverb) Electric Piano.mp3
Fat Synthesizer (Flanger/Delay/Reverb) Fat Synthesizer.mp3
Soprano Sax (Reverb) Soprano Sax.mp3
Synthesizer Bass (Chorus/Reverb) Synthesizer Bass.mp3
Synthesizer (Vocal Morpher/Delay/Reverb) Synthesizer.mp3
Vocalist (EQ/Delay/Reverb) Vocalist.mp3